<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Whenever someone invokes ‘designer babies’ to... > Whenever someone invokes ‘designer babies’ to terminate every discussion of genetic medicine, watch the rhetorical maneuver carefully. They have jumped from treating a devastating mutation in a consenting patient to an imagined future society ordering children from a menu because the first subject was harder to oppose. A slippery slope is not a substitute for distinguishing points on the slope. Governance exists precisely because civilizations can permit one application while restricting another. **Source:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism, Anti-Science Panic, those Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Whenever someone invokes ‘designer babies’ to terminate every discussion of genetic medicine, watch the rhetorical maneuver carefully. They have jumped from treating a devastating mutation in a consenting patient to an imagined future society ordering children from a menu because the first subject was harder to oppose. A slippery slope is not a substitute for distinguishing points on the slope. Governance exists precisely because civilizations can permit one application while restricting another.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-whenever-someone-invokes-while-restricting-another ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->